Three key players - Glasner, Guehi, Parish - and they did not all want the same thing, hence the mess. It’s a lack of alignment.
Glasner wanted to keep his star defender as it makes Palace better and makes Glasner look better too.
Guehi wanted his move. He gave his all for Palace, was as professional as could be, but then got shafted at the end in a power struggle between manager/owner.
Parish, pragmatically, decided that 35M for a player who was not going to sign a new deal was too much money for a club like Palace to turn down.
Glasner threatened to quit. Parish would have been left without a manager and a captain, so he acquiesced. Whether or not that was wise remains to be seen. Palace are now fractured, things will be awkward, and before too long both Glasner and Guehi will be gone anyway. The 35M will either be zero next summer, or 15-20M early January.
That makes it look like parish was trying to avoid Guehi until it was too late to finalise a deal. While Parish and Glasner have every right to do what they did in Palaces name, 1 was a coward and the other a cnut to do it to Guehi at such a late hour on deadline day, when he thought and hoped everything was wrapped up.
The story doesnt make sense and TIA have published only half of it. The story reported elsewhere is that he sanctioned the move in the afternoon and then hours later went to do his fitness class where he was supposedly unreachable for an hour. But by that time Liverpool were already moving on the formalities needed to close it and it wasnt our lack of time that ultimately derailed it.
From the flipside it could be Gasner saying don’t sell my best players and replace it with those half as good… and drag the team, and me down performance wise.
Unfortunately they do as they will have him for free and also they are doing the double as Upamecano is also on a free at the same time. They have done this trick on three of the biggest European clubs in Europe including us twice with Trent already done. They must line it up by agreement with the player and their agent.